Sunan an-Nasa'i 1787

Translation

"Whoever goes to his bed intending to get up and pray qiyam at night, then sleep overwhelms him until morning, will have recorded that which he intended and his sleep is a charity given to him by his Lord, the Mighty and Sublime."

Notes

• خَالَفَهُ سُفْيَانُ

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• Ibn Khuzaymah

  فإن كان زائدة حفظ الإسناد الذي ذكره وسليمان سمعه من حبيب وحبيب من عبدة فإنهما مدلسان فجائز أن يكون عبدة حدث بالخبر مرة قديما عن سويد بن غفلة عن أبي الدرداء بلا شك ثم شك بعد أسمعه من زر بن حبيش أو من سويد وهو عن أبي الدرداء أو عن أبي ذر لأن بين حبيب بن أبي ثابت وبين الثوري وابن عيينة من السن ما قد ينسى الرجل كثيرا مما كان يحفظه فإن كان حبيب بن أبي ثابت سمع هذا الخبر من عبدة فيشبه أن يكون سمعه قبل تولد ابن عيينة لأن حبيب بن أبي ثابت لعله أكبر من عبدة بن أبي لبابة قد سمع حبيب بن أبي ثابت من ابن عمر والله أعلم بالمحفوظ من هذه الأسانيد

  machine translationIf Zā'idah preserved the chain of transmission he mentioned, then Sulaymān heard it from Ḥabīb, and Ḥabīb from ʿAbdah, and both of them are mudallis (those who practise tadlīs). So it is possible that ʿAbdah narrated the report at one time, long ago, from Suwayd b. Ghafalah from Abū al-Dardāʾ without doubt, and then afterwards doubted whether he had heard it from Zirr b. Ḥubaysh or from Suwayd, and whether it was from Abū al-Dardāʾ or from Abū Dharr. For between Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit and both al-Thawrī and Ibn ʿUyaynah there is an age gap such that a man may forget much of what he used to memorise. If Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit heard this report from ʿAbdah, it is likely that he heard it before Ibn ʿUyaynah was born, because Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit was perhaps older than ʿAbdah b. Abī Lubābah. Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit had heard from Ibn ʿUmar. And God knows best which of these chains is the preserved (maḥfūẓ) one. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 1788

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1785Sunan an-Nasa'i 1786Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1332al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4799Musnad al-Bazzar 4158al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1462

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū al-Dardāʾ

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   Suwayd b. Ghafalah al-Madhḥijī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AH
   سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdah b. Abī Lubābah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   عَبْدَةَ بْنِ أَبِي لُبَابَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
   حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
   عن
5. 5
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
6. 6
   Zāʾidah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AH
   زَائِدَةَثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنة
   عن
7. 7
   Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 203 AH, or 204 AH
   حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة عابد
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Hārūn b. ʿAbdillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 241 AH, or: 243 AH, or: 249 AH
   هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
   أخبرنا
9. 9
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.